The First Continental Congress formed in response to the British Parliament's passage of the Intolerable Acts (called the Coercive Acts in England), which aimed to punish Massachusetts for the ...

This small book could be a starting point for a discussion ... I would love to see a modern day Continental Congress happen. NY police find body of missing man from MN they say was tortured ...

What follows is part of an editorial we ran in this space in 2003. We thought then it was appropriate for the Fourth of July and think it is worth repeating. “I am apt to believe it will be ...

On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to declare independence from Great Britain. Approximately 20 percent of the members of Congress were opposed to separation ...